Sherlock Holmes arrives in St. Petersburg on a private invitation from Grand Duke Constantine to investigate the circumstances of the death of Pyotr Tchaikovsky. In the capital of the Russian Empire, a cholera epidemic is raging, and this is far from the only obstacle standing in the path of the great detective. The case turns out to be extremely complex, and the forces preventing its solution are very powerful. In addition, Holmes will have to prove the correctness of his method in competition with another famous investigator—Porfiry Petrovich Znamensky…